Paper
Cast: 8f 6m
Staging: Built set (manager's office and corridor)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
23 Jun 2022
Paper
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Faye and Mel have been together forever. Two kids, a mortgage and a diabetic hamster. A regular, unexceptional existence. They work hard, they get by, they do their best. So if it's true - if Faye's father really has left the factory to her - they'd deserve it, wouldn't they? The site could be worth a fortune - not for making scissors, but ripe for redevelopment. It could change everything. But first they need the paperwork.
Paper is a play about family, heritage and legacy, and is part of Chris Bush's triptych of plays about a Sheffield manufacturing family, Rock / Paper / Scissors. The three plays were first performed simultaneously with the same cast moving between three theatres in Sheffield – the Crucible, the Lyceum and the Studio – as part of Sheffield Theatres' fiftieth birthday celebrations in 2022.
Note for performers: the information on this page, including the licensing fee, is for productions of the single play. For productions of the complete triptych of plays, see Rock / Paper / Scissors.
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'People don't need scissors. They don't need beautiful, handcrafted, ninety pound scissors, however impressive they might be. But they do need somewhere to live.'
'Paper is a more intimate affair [than Rock or Scissors], and when the emotional dam breaks towards the end, it's genuinely moving... There are moments in Paper that are so beautiful, it makes you catch your breath... the dialogue switches nimbly from domestic bickering to moments of pure beauty'
The StageCast: 8f 6m
Staging:Built set (manager's office and corridor)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
23 Jun 2022
